
Birthday:
08-11-1941
(83 years)
Birthplace:
Tampere, Finland
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Crime and Punishment
Gaffer
event1983 star_border 6.9
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In Helsinki, an ex-law student turned slaughterhouse worker commits a senseless crime that catapults him into loneliness. Only a woman who accidentally arrived at the crime scene wants to follow him, but guilt and the tightening net of the police throw a shadow over their desperate love affair.
Portraits of Women
Director of Photography
event1970 star_border 5.1
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Finnish porn movie producer Pertsa returns from America to his home country to continue his profession with hopelessly small budgets and incompetent casts and crews. A self-ironic satire about director Donner's scandalous fame in late 1960s Finland, notorious for a graphic long shot of his penis pointing northeast.
Herr Puntila And His Servant Matti
Director of Photography
event1979 star_border 8
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Based on the Bertolt Brecht play, the movie follows the farmer Puntila, who when he's sober is a real pig but whenever he gets drunk becomes very generous. Puntila is trying to get his daughter to get married, but the problem is that his drunk self wants her to marry another man than his sober personality wants.
Mother Wanted
Director of Photography
event1989 star_border 6
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Anni wants a new mommy for herself and a new wife for her dad. But dad has forgotten how to find a wife and needs Anni's help.
Onnelliset leikit
Director of Photography
event1964
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A film in two episodes. The first, "Juulia", is a young woman's stylish reminiscence of her brief summer romance, set in some of the most chic design locations around Helsinki. The second episode "Tikku", a seemingly semi-improvised comedy, takes an overworked housewife, her three children and her lazy husband out of the city to spend the weekend at the mother-in-law's.
Vaaksa vaaraa
Director of Photography
event1965 star_border 2.5
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A technician working in the telephony company receives a mysterious packet.
The Green Widow
Director of Photography
event1968 star_border 3.5
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A lonely young suburban housewife participates in a radio interview survey while simultaneously engaging in an extramarital affair.
Mommilan veriteot 1917
Screenplay
event1973 star_border 6.1
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On the eve of the Finnish Civil War, the film follows the last days of Alfred Kordelin, the richest man in Finland.
Kuningas lähtee Ranskaan
Writer
event1986 star_border 4.5
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A new ice age is coming to England. All energy sources have been depleted and despair is taking over the earth. The young king decides to use his last trump card before his power collapses and anarchy reigns over the island kingdom.
Aikalainen
Director of Photography
event1984 star_border 3
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A Finnish adaptation of Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
Pimeys odottaa
Director of Photography
event1985 star_border 3.5
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Matti Mäki is a young man who gets involved with a corrupt police man seeking proof that his wife, a night club singer, is cheating on him in this film noir style thriller.
Näkemiin, hyvästi
Director of Photography
event1986 star_border 6
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When a new man appears in Tuula's life, Jorma does not tolerate the idea and begins to yearn back for his ex-wife. They drift into a situation where both face a big choice that has far-reaching implications for the rest of their lives.
Marraskuun harmaa valo
Director of Photography
event1993 star_border 5.7
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Kari Syysmäki, a Finnish Businessman is on a vacation with his wife in Tallinn. When his wife is away a young man enters their hotel room with a gun. He tells to the businessman that he has just tried to rob a bank, but accidentally shot one of the clerks. Now he's hiding from the cops. But when the bank robber forgets his gun on the table, Syysmäki grabs it and shoots him in the back. After that Syysmäki refuses to travel back to Finland with his wife. He stays in Tallinn and soon he's about to face both the cops and the mob of Estonia.
Muuttolinnun aika
Director of Photography
event1991 star_border 5
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Ossi hasn't seen his daughter for over ten years. Suddenly she arrives to figure out what kind of person her father is and why she wasn't good enough for him.
Uppo-Nalle
Director of Photography
event1991
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Little girl finds a teddy bear from the seashore. Reeta and Teddy Uppo form a deep friendship with each other, but what happens when Uppo meets an old hermit?
Ylösnousemus
Director of Photography
event1985 star_border 5.5
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A man fakes his own suicide in order to see how his close ones react.
The Inspector
Director of Photography
event2011
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Surrealistic black comedy about a safe insurance inspector looking into one company's fate.
Aurinkotuuli
Director of Photography
event1980 star_border 3
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Gravity researcher Erik Rankamaa dies in his prime in 1970. He is been deep frozen and gets defrosted in 1999, while people of his time are still alive.
Toto
Director of Photography
event1982 star_border 7
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A group of three male friends with domestic problems behave badly.
Viimeiset rotannahat
Director of Photography
event1985 star_border 5.3
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Anssi Mänttäri’s low-budget movies with their intimate content have become classics. In this black comedy that takes place in Helsinki in summer the main character (played by Mänttäri himself) jumps from one bar and bed to the next. Especially vulgar black humour.
Anna
Director of Photography
event1970 star_border 5.4
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A doctor, her daughter, and her young housekeeper spend their summer on a remote island.
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